Professor Moore's fields of interest are fluid mechanics, turbomachinery, and heat transfer. Current research concerns the aerodynamic theory of stall oscillations and surge in axial compressors and turbojet engines. Related studies, both theoretical and experimental, concern flow disturbances in compressor inlets and diffusers. Important new advances have been made toward a theory of rotating stall in multistage axial compressors; these formulations describe for the first time the limit cycles that characterize the phenomenon, how the parameters of the compressor affect the motion, and when "recovery" from rotating stall may be expected. Present research aims at justifying and extending these results to realistic situations, and incorporating the phenomena of rotating stall and engine surge-up to now considered separate phenomena-into a single theory. Moore's methods involve the modern theory of nonlinear vibration, with the computations needed to make it applicable to real engines.

After receiving his doctoral degree, Moore was an aeronautical research scientist at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), now the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and then director of the Aerosciences Division at the Cornell Aeronautics Laboratory (later CALSPAN and now Verdian, Buffalo, New York). He joined the Cornell faculty in 1965, and was head of the Department of Thermal Engineering until 1973. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and a member of the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board of the National Research Council. He is a recipient of NASA's Distinguished Scientific Achievement Medal.